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WARREN v. HARVEY

Civ. No. H-77-206.

472 F.Supp. 1061 (1979)

William J. WARREN v. Henry M. HARVEY, Acting Superintendent, Whiting Forensic Institute, Middletown, Connecticut.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

June 15, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary F. Keller, Yale Legal Services Organization, New Haven, Conn., for petitioner.

Ernest Diette, Jr., Asst. State's Atty., New Haven, Conn., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

BLUMENFELD, District Judge.

Petitioner, William J. Warren, brings this action for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the constitutionality of his confinement at Whiting Forensic Institute, a state institution for treatment of committed mentally ill persons. His present involuntary confinement there is based on Conn.Gen.Stat. § 53a-47, which authorizes the confinement of an individual acquitted on grounds of insanity where that...

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